Work And Life Chances

Question 1

Parker

Answer 1

er (1971) - focused on male, full-time paid employment, writing that people’s pations (jobs) and the way they experience their work (their independence and action, activities they complete) have important influences on their leisure activities, h can influence the identities they project to others.
uggested that there are three patterns in the link between work and leisure.

Question 2

Doherty

Answer 2

Doherty’s end of work thesis
Doherty (2009) identifies the main features of this society in which, some sociologists argue, work has lost its central place in people’s lives. As suggested in the previous booklets, a lot of jobs in contemporary society have become less skilled, or ‘degraded’, with many workers experiencing alienation, with little work satisfaction, interest or opportunity to get involved in, or attached to their work.
The security of jobs for life has disappeared and work has become more insecure. Working hours have become far more flexible and short-term, with more part-time, short-term, temporary, seasonal, and fixed-term employment contracts and more highly insecure zero-hours contracts. These jobs face constant insecurity, as they are undercut by cheaper labour performed by exploited migrant workers, disappear altogether, and/or are exported to other